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Serra Ventures

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Village Global

Amity Ventures is a people-focused firm that supports founders of technology companies in building category-defining businesses. Based in San Francisco, CA, the partners at Amity have invested in over fifty companies across all stages of company growth throughout their years in business together.

Amity Ventures

Rough Draft Ventures is a student-led team that funds technology-focused university entrepreneurs. They invest checks through founder-friendly SAFEs via their network of student fellows, supplying the brightest student founders across the US with meaningful resources, access to education, and one of their earliest support systems. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Rough Draft Ventures

We're a team of founders and operators turned investors who lead/co-lead investment rounds at the Seed and Series A. We stick to the categories we know best: software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, and vertical SaaS. We’re fans of open-source software and excited by recent advances in AI.

Vertex Ventures US

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors who manage portfolios in the U.S., China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. The firm is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, supporting them with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.

Vertex Ventures

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, and financial technologies.  Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Evisort

Evisort offers the next generation of AI-powered contract intelligence. Evisort’s AI platform for contract lifecycle management and analysis connects contract data, unlocks productivity, and delivers digital workflows that create great experiences across the enterprise.

<div><p>Evisort is an AI-powered contract management company founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researchers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data. Evisort's AI understands meaning and context in legal language, virtually eliminating the need to read contracts. Evisort helps companies organize, understand, and extract data from their contracts. With Evisort, information locked away in documents becomes searchable, and key terms can be surfaced to the right people at the right time. It can be used across all documents across an organization and helps companies reduce costs and improve their compliance and business operations.</p></div>

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

Tools for streamlining or improving one or more aspects of contractual agreements

Contract Management Tools

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    Evisort is an AI-powered contract management company founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researchers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data. Evisort's AI understands meaning and context in legal language, virtually eliminating the need to read contracts. Evisort helps companies organize, understand, and extract data from their contracts. With Evisort, information locked away in documents becomes searchable, and key terms can be surfaced to the right people at the right time. It can be used across all documents across an organization and helps companies reduce costs and improve their compliance and business operations.
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    At anecdotes, we empower compliance leaders with innovation by streamlining their infosec compliance efforts.    The anecdotes compliance platform is the first enterprise-grade solution to automate the tedious, unreliable manual work of the evidence collection process, lifting the compliance burden off your organization. Our plug and play platform continuously collects and maps relevant data into normalized, credible evidence and offers advanced visibility and data sharing to ensure the best collaboration between the compliance leaders and the auditors.    Trusted by large global enterprises like Lemonade, Fiverr and AppsFlyer and backed by top VCs, anecdotes strives to help compliance leaders scale their compliance efforts with ease.
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Anecdotes

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    Exterro, Inc. is the recognized leader for legal governance, risk management, and compliance software solutions. Its solutions enable legal teams to control risks, reduce costs, enforce compliance and streamline processes by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, cross-platform business units, service providers, and resources. Exterro pioneered e-discovery workflow management technology, and continues to expand its innovative Fusion suite of applications Genome, Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow Management, and FusionGo. The complete Fusion platform provides an end-to-end risk assessment and information management solution. Regardless of industry or system environment, Fusion integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and enterprise systems. Exterro solutions assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Exterro has operations across the United States and abroad.
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Exterro

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    Transcend is the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple for companies to give their users control over their personal data. Personal data is disorganized, hard to spot, and stored across many systems. That makes offering data rights—like deleting your data—very hard for companies. Transcend automatically fulfills data subject requests inside companies, across all of their data systems and vendors. Transcend also provides their end-users with a control panel, or “Privacy Center”, hosted at privacy.<company>.com where users can manage their privacy preferences, export their data, or delete it. By making data subject requests painless for companies, Transcend is putting users everywhere in the driver’s seat of their personal data.
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Transcend

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    Icertis specializes in contract life cycle management (CLM) solutions, providing organizations with comprehensive visibility and efficient contract management across the enterprise. It leverages advanced technologies, including generative AI, in its flagship product, the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform, which covers the entire contract life cycle&mdash;contract setup, authoring, approvals, and ongoing contract operations. It goes beyond contract execution by offering advanced tools for governance, risk, and compliance. Additionally, Icertis Contract Intelligence Copilots, powered by AI, assists professionals in contract reviews, negotiations, and insight generation. The AI applications and services enable efficient contract management, from importing third-party contracts at scale to analyzing negotiation history and visualizing deep data insights. The business applications address specific needs, including clinical trial agreements and budgeting, collaboration with external partners, GDPR compliance, obligation management, rebates and growth incentives, proposal management, risk management, sourcing, supplier onboarding and diversity compliance, and supplier relationship management. It also integrates with enterprise systems like Microsoft, SAP, and Salesforce to automate end-to-end business processes. As of September 2023, the company had managed more than 10 million contracts across 90+ countries.
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    As of October 2022, Icertis served clients such as Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Sanofi, Mercedes-Benz, and Qantas, as well as public sector agencies.
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    In October 2022, the company raised USD 150 million in funding consisting of a revolving credit facility and convertible financing from Silicon Valley Bank. It planned to use the funds to accelerate the application of technologies like AI, NLP, ML, and blockchain to deliver significant value to its customers. Icertis&rsquo; valuation stood at USD 2.8 billion in March 2021 and reportedly surged to USD 5 billion in early 2022.
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    For FY2022, the company reported an annual recurring revenue of USD 225 million, marking a 41% YoY growth from USD 160 million in FY2021.&nbsp;
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Icertis

AI reviews documents and contracts and derives insights from multimedia data sources

Includes platforms that offer contract lifecycle management from their creation, negotiation, compliance, review, and approval, to execution, tracking, and monitoring. They can automate the processing of routine contracts with a high degree of accuracy and may include technology to organize, understand, and extract data from contracts. Also comprises tools for identity verification, electronic signatures, electronic registered delivery, and electronic time stamp.

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    The last mile of enterprise business processes (sales agreement, new hire paperwork, procurement paperwork, project documentation)  often requires exchanging information in document form to complete a transaction; obtain approvals, sign-offs, or acknowledgements; or enlist both internal and external stakeholders for review and collaboration.   DocuCollab offers an embedded micro-collaboration model where collaborative document editing, review and negotiation capabilities are available inside business applications such as CRM, ERP and HRMS . Thus, enterprise users need not jump back and forth between their business applications and collaboration application.  DocuCollab is a digital transaction accelerator that speeds up business transactions, boosts productivity and reduces collaboration noise.
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DocuCollab

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    Concord is a cloud-based contract lifecycle management platform that is changing the way the world is creating, negotiating, signing, and managing contracts. An all-in-one platform, Concord is simple to use and works with any type of contract, across your entire company&mdash;every department and every employee&mdash;and is the only platform to automate and support the complete contract lifecycle, from online negotiation to e-signature, and contract follow-through.  With robust features and multiple integrations, including Google Docs, Salesforce, Dropbox, and Box, you get a powerful solution that&rsquo;s flexible, able to meet unique organizational needs and use cases and makes growth and compliance synonymous. Concord gets agreements faster, saving you time and money, and makes you more agile with at-a-glance contract management, automated notifications, and powerful analytics&mdash;you always know how many contracts you have and what stage they&rsquo;re in. Concord is more than a contract management platform, it is a contract success platform.
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Concord

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    Ironclad is one of the nation&rsquo;s top makers of enterprise software for managing contracts. L&rsquo;Or&eacute;al, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It&rsquo;s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement, or a complex NDA. The company was named one of the 20 Rising Stars on the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list and is backed by leading investors like Sequoia, Bond, Accel, Y Combinator, Lux, and Emergence.
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Ironclad

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    Contract management platform with a native digital signature.  Leveraging blockchain and AI, INHUBBER provides unprecedented security and data analytics for cloud-based CLM software. INHUBBER simplifies contracts and makes them comprehensible, interactive, easy to manage, and automated. It reduces the time, costs, and risks associated with negotiating, creating, approving, and managing contracts.  INHUBBER's AI answers contextual questions, and the digital signature signs any file format.
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INHUBBER

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    Oneflow makes business as simple as a handshake. Oneflow is an e-contract platform - the new generation of the e-signing solution. Unlike e-signature technology, which focuses on the signing step in the workflow, e-contract automates the entire contract workflow from start to finish. Save time, and work smarter.
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Oneflow

Remote workers can access information and stay connected without physical storage or meetings

Personalization tools can be used to create and manage contracts tailored to specific clients

AI/ML solutions can streamline contract processes by extracting data, identifying risks, and enabling predictive analytics

Platforms that use AI-powered tools to identify potential breaches, entitlements, obligations, and changes in conditions to ensure that agreements are in compliance throughout the life cycle of the contract

Evisort

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